The Drought Fighter Topics: Climate Change, Drought, Farming, Fertility, Food, Organic Agriculture, Science, Soil Health, Urban Farming Locations: California, Sebastopol Materials: Bugs, Carbon, Compost, Plants, Soil Masters: Paul Kaiser: Drought Fighter Could a controversial farmer in California have found the most effective way to grow food in a warming world?

In the closing presentation at last year’s World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, Dwayne Beck, a professor of agriculture at South Dakota State University, pointed out that 80 percent of the cost of what farmers put into their fields (water, sprays, and fertilizers, the works) involves fossil energy.

http://craftsmanship.net/drought-fighters/

Food Is Your Best Medicine

Basics for everyone: No salt, sugar, honey. Have "Bieler Soup" daily: zucchini, green beans, parsley, celery cut up and simmered. These most alkaline veggies balance your system. Read the book for details.

http://www.amazon.com/Food-Your-Medicine-Henry-Bieler/dp/0345351835/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430329117&sr=8-1&keywords=bieler

General Bibliography of Natural Medicine

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0202genhealthbiblio.html

Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Stolen-Future-Threatening-Intelligence/dp/0452274141/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430324890&sr=1-1&keywords=Our+Stolen+Future

The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health

http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Lie-Yourself-Chemicals-Destroying/dp/0452288398/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430324816&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Hundred-Year+Lie

We Want Real Food: Why Our Food is Deficient in Minerals and Nutrients - and What We Can Do About it

http://www.amazon.com/Want-Real-Food-Deficient-Nutrients/dp/1845292677

Empty Harvest

http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Harvest-Bernard-Jensen/dp/089529558X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430322910&sr=8-1&keywords=Empty+Harvest%3A+Understanding+the+link+between+our+food%2C+our+immunity+and+our+planet

Longevity and Nutrition Library

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0203CAT/0203longevitylibcat.html

Dr. G. W. Heard

http://amarillo.com/stories/051900/his_heard.html#.VUD7AfCK-FU

Bike trails

https://www.cor.net/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2817

http://cor.net/index.aspx?page=636

http://www.bikefriendlygarland.org/p/maps.html

Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat!

http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

EatTheWeeds; Episode 134: Neighborhood Foraging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6RSVnDHjVk

EatTheWeeds: Episode 47: Apios Americana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQ7LcB9cdU

American Groundnut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW5yTj3BzZU

Pulse (legume)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_%28legume%29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW_re4Lgx1g

Groundnuts: Anti-Cancer Treat

http://www.eattheweeds.com/groundnuts-anti-cancer-treat/

Wendell Berry Narrative For the Future

"Changes in principle, carried into practice, are necessarily small changes made at home by one of us or a few of us.  Innumerable small solutions emerge as the changed principles are adapted to unique lives in unique small places.  Such small solutions do not wait upon the future...." (Our Only World, 174).

aldo leopold books

https://www.google.com/search?q=aldo+leopold&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=aldo+leopold+books&revid=1604670404

A list of the most important books ever written about sustainable agriculture

Smith, J. Russell. Tree Crops: a permanent agriculture. New York: Harcourt & Brace, 1929.

A list of the most important books ever written about sustainable agriculture (and human health) would include Tree Crops, as well as the books by Sir Albert Howard, the publications of William Albrecht and Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Downloads as a PDF of 11 mb. Not a bad scan job, either. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/01aglibwelcome.html

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison 28 Oct. 1785

Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed. It is too soon yet in our country to say that every man who cannot find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html

What is the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone?

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzone/index.html

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 2nd Edition (A Gardener's Supply Book)

http://www.amazon.com/New-Organic-Grower-Techniques-Gardeners/dp/093003175X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429807251&sr=8-1&keywords=The+New+Organic+Grower

Lucky Layla

http://www.luckylayla.com/

Texas Pure Products

http://egov.plano.gov/pureproducts/

Tips for Starting a Community Supported Agriculture Farm

6. Draw a garden plan on paper. Our plan for our 45- x 200-foot garden showed it divided by a wide path down the middle. Then 20-foot-wide sections on either side were divided into 3-foot-wide beds, with 1-foot walking paths between them. Soil from the path was shoveled or raked onto the beds to raise them slightly.

http://www.mofga.org/Publications/MaineOrganicFarmerGardener/Winter20092010/TipsforCSA/tabid/1385/Default.aspx 

Dear Modern Farmer: How Do I Legally Start a CSA?

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/dear-modern-farmer-legally-start-csa/

Texas Cottage Foods Law 2013 FAQ: Selling Home Made Foods

http://farmandranchfreedom.org/texas-cottage-foods-law-2013-faq/

Why I Suck At Homesteading And What I Should’ve Learned From The Amish

http://thisaintthelyceum.org/suck-homesteading-shouldve-learned-amish/

http://distributistreview.com/mag/category/economics/agrarian-economics/

How to Grow Spelt

http://www.heirloom-organics.com/guide/va/guidetogrowingspelt.html

How to Grow Millet

http://www.heirloom-organics.com/guide/va/guidetogrowingmillet.html

How to Grow Pinto Beans

http://www.growthis.com/how-to-grow-pinto-beans/

sprouter

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N8ESHU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000N8ESHU&linkCode=as2&tag=organgardeand-20

Dehydrator

http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-Snackmaster-Food-Dehydrator-FD-75A/dp/B0090WOCN0/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1429639214&sr=1-1&keywords=dehydrator

Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934275182/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1934275182&linkCode=as2&tag=organgardeand-20

Ezekiel Bread

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/ezekiel-bread-i/

http://www.haaretz.com/life/archaeology/1.567107

http://www.organic-gardening-and-homesteading.com/ezekiel-sprouted-grain-bread-recipes.html

Choosing the Right Countertop Grain Mill

http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/choosing-a-grain-mill-zm0z04djzkin.aspx

mill

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Augason-Farms-Emergency-Food-Victoria-Grain-Mill-Hand-Wheat-Grinder/22985180#reviews

Ikaria Greece Wild Greens

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/10/ikarian-greek-island-diet-health-benefit

http://eattheinvaders.org/blue-plate-special-wild-fennel/

italian dandelion

lentils

garbanzos 

horta 

amarinth

welcome weeds

sow thistles

sow thistle

lentils 

garbanzo

The Magic Milk Jug

Seed flats. Starting your own seeds is the easiest way to cut your gardening costs to the bone. And it's the only way to get many of the newest varieties. To save space and bother, start seeds in shallow trays filled with potting soil, then transplant the strongest seedlings to pots later on. To make free seed flats, cut off the bottom three inches of a gallon milk jug and punch a few holes in the bottom with a nail. Fill with potting mix, and use a pencil to create two or three shallow furrows for sowing. Then plant your seeds according to the packet directions.

http://www.bhg.com/gardening/yard/tools/no-cost-or-low-cost-garden-tools/?socsrc=bhgfb0416157

Solar Power

Got sun? go solar : get free renewable energy to power your grid-tied home / Rex A. Ewing and Doug Pratt.

Generating free electricity at home with solar energy / A. Guna.

The complete idiot's guide to renewable energy for your home / by Harvey Bryan and Brita Belli.

Renewable energies for your home : real-world solutions for green conversions / Russel Gehrke.

Real Goods solar living sourcebook : your complete guide to living beyond the grid with renewable energy technologies and sustainable living / John Schaeffer ; foreword by Bill McKibben.   

Lowe's

Corn Lover Delights

https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/corn-lover-delights/#more-7528

The Tragedy Of The American Farmer, Revealed In A Craiglist "For Sale" Post

Anyway, as the alcohol-induced corn boom (ethanol) violently turned to bust, un-pleasant realities of that mystical numberland called "Finance" started to appear. Turns out that the banker actually wants his money back WITH interest! I couldn't believe it.......... I had gotten so used to the government's farm welfare programs when corn was $2 that I almost forgot how markets and financing was supposed to work!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-02/tragedy-americas-farmer-revealed-craiglist-sale-post

The Prejudice Against Country People

http://www.progressive.org/node/1596

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/jun/21/genes-in-the-food/

WIC and the Dairy Lobby

The lobbying is coming from the National Potato Council, which wants—no surprise—white potatoes to be included the list of foods approved for purchase with WIC benefits (the “WIC Package”).

http://www.foodpolitics.com/2014/01/the-fight-over-white-potatoes-in-wic/

http://www.foodmanufacturing.com/news/2014/12/potato-industrys-lobbying-pays-congress-adds-vegetable-wic-menu

USDA's report on WIC this week estimates that the program leads to about $4.6 billion in annual food spending. Of this, perhaps 26% is "additional" spending that would not have occurred in the absence of the program.

http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/03/farm-spending-attributable-to-wic.html

Slicing Into Food Industry’s $40 Million Lobbying Efforts 

Food Subsidies

 

 

how the other half dies

http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/archives/books/howtheotherhalfdies.pdf

Politics on a Human Scale: Historiography

http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/10/politics-on-a-human-scale-historiography/

FINANCIAL STABILITY A CASE FOR COMPLEMENTARY CURRENCIES

http://www.margritkennedy.de/media/financialstabilityfinalmk_46.pdf

Helmut Creutz The Money Syndrome

https://realcurrencies.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/monsyndrome_ch-7-18-21-22-1.pdf